OFFICIAL NEWS Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

I pretty much loathe time travelling stories (=plots mean nothing in them and nothing has consequence), but I'm very much looking forward to this one nonetheless. It sounds like they're doing a big, high-concept sci-fi/action adventure thing, and that's exciting

 

The Dial of destiny. Someone turned the thermostat down, now Indy must figure out how to get it back up to 80 before time runs out.

 

He'd better figure it out before Touched By An Angle comes on.

 

This trailer made me so pumped

 

Really looking forward to a great Indy tale!

 

If it wasn't Mangold directing, I'd be nervous about it as well, time travel has been over used, to say the least. MCUs End Game used it rather well, but I wish they had used another idea, it was too predictable; we all thought what are they going to do time travel? and yup, they did... nevertheless, they did a great job with it.

 

In my book, Dial of Destiny is a solidly written movie, well-acted and loaded with charm, and a whole lot of fun!

I did find it too long, especially the 2nd act, and Mangold tried to cram 1.5-2 movies’ worth into this one, but alright.

It’s sad that we’ll (probably) never get another Indy, but such is the curse of time…

It was also funny to me that the plot-device was

Spoiler: spoiler

the actual antikytherea mechanism!

For some reason, that never occured to me, eventhough it really should have
(Saw it in the National Museum in Athens a few years back <3 )

Go see DoD; it’s a good film and a great Indy

 

I caught the early show this morning with wife and a friend. We all enjoyed it and felt the negative publicity around it was unwarranted.

 

I'm glad that what I've been reading is inaccurate. Never really been an Indy fan, but I don't hate it, either. My wife will probably want to go see it.

Y'know, folks, you could always get some animated adventures of Indiana Jones...

 

Just watched it, and I also do not know why people hated it so much, really enjoyed it.

 

Interesting. After a year and a half, the MAIN Indiana Jones thread is still on the very FIRST page....

SIMILAR threads have generated a total of 16 replies. The LACK of enthusiasm for this film tells its own story. Sad.

 

I finally saw this and loved it. The story was good. Cast were great. Loved the locations. It was some trip watching my home town successfully masquerading as New York City, then walking out of the cinema straight into those same streets.

I wished the script had more/better jokes. And I'd have liked it better if the villains had suffered a more specifically ironic and graphic death but context of what we got was superb. That would have definitely tipped it over into instant smash classic status. But I have no complaints.

The characterisation of Helena and her "Short Round" was a great choice. And the relationship between her and Indy was brilliant. (She reminds me of what I'd read of the original vision for Indiana Smith as a treasure hunter who keeps hunting treasure to finance their lifestyle.)

The movie had me from the start and never lost me at any point (although the underwater bit could have if it hadn't been so brief).

The ending was emotional and not sentimental or cloying.

 

I finally got to see it early this morning (an insomniac's gotta do *something* in the wee hours!) and I really liked it.

Nothing will ever touch Raiders, IMHO. And Last Crusade isn't far behind. That said, I really don't see why DoD got such a critical drubbing initially. Yeah, it's long. Yeah, it spends a bit too much screen time on exposition. But I don’t have a problem with that, given the fact that so many blockbuster type films tend to be weighted heavily toward the short-attention-span crowd.

And yeah, Indy is shown as an emotionally broken old man. Is it a bold new concept? No. But it worked just fine for me here, the same way it worked for me in The Last Jedi when they portrayed Luke that way. And let's be honest - if you're going to resurrect a classic character in their twilight years, going with the "happily ever after" version of them isn't likely to give you too much to work with.

I'll admit, I was hesitant when I heard that they were doing another Indy movie. I felt like Crystal Skull was one two many trips to the well, and that they really should have left it with Last Crusade.

But I ended up being very pleasantly surprised by Dial of Destiny. Harrison did a great job, I enjoyed the new characters, the returning ones were fun to see, and it was a surprisingly strong, engaging story. Hell, I even liked the ending. I'd put it even with or possibly just ahead of Temple of Doom, though it's a very different kind of Indy movie.

Trying to keep this spoiler free, so I won't get too detailed, but one touch I did like was the head fake early in the film concerning a certain artifact. It was, as I recall, one of the original inspirations to focus Raiders on Hitler's obsession with antiquities, and I dug its appearance here.

If you haven't yet seen it, drop as many of your expectations as you can and give it a watch.